What format should I be encoding to?

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Angelshare1

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I've been doing MPEG-2 DVD and on my 42 inch plasma the footage doesn't look as good as in my Premeire preview window. It's not as sharp and the colors are not as vibrant. Is this just a side effect of looking at a small 5 inch window on an LCD monitor vs 42 inches of Plasma or should I be encoding in something different? (My film is for DVD only and is 1080i/24.)
 
If you're not using Premiere Pro CS5, you're going to have a color space conversion issue going from HD REC.709 to SD REC.601. Contact a professional compressionist if you want your film to look best downsampled to DVD resolution. You will also run into codec efficency issues if your film is long, and you'll run into scaling issues as well.

There is nothing you can do in Premiere Pro to fix these issues. You'll need to use third party software/hardware to solve all of these conversion issues. Unfortunately Premiere Pro has always had these issues and you'll be better served by a professional if this is a product that is going to market.
 
What Demistate said and:

Play it back full screen on your computer. Make sure your Plasma and Monitor are color calibrated.... also if you have an NVIDIA card there is a "digital vibrance" mode that sometimes is turned up and can mess up your colors badly.

Hit ~ in Premiere on the preview window to see it fullscreen btw.
 
Demistate said:
If you're not using Premiere Pro CS5, you're going to have a color space conversion issue going from HD REC.709 to SD REC.601. Contact a professional compressionist if you want your film to look best downsampled to DVD resolution. You will also run into codec efficency issues if your film is long, and you'll run into scaling issues as well.

There is nothing you can do in Premiere Pro to fix these issues. You'll need to use third party software/hardware to solve all of these conversion issues. Unfortunately Premiere Pro has always had these issues and you'll be better served by a professional if this is a product that is going to market.
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Wow, I didn't know all this. You'll have to bear with me here, I'm a jack of all trades indy filmmaker. I can try the demo verison of CS5 to see how it looks and upgrade if it looks better.

My film is a feature length film. Right now I am editing it in 20 different projects instead of one large one. (separated by DVD chapters) I planned on encoding and exporting each as it's own little file and then importing them into Encore for authuring. Is that a good way of doing it? What do you mean by codec efficency issues? Does that mean it will not fit on a DVD? And what are scaling issues? (ie what will the movie look like?)
 
if im working in cs5 i like to do a dynamic link of my project to encore and skip the encoding all together - although encore will have to transcode when it burns the dvd (takes time) but i found the quality to be excellent. this may not be so usefull with multiple projects though.
 
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